Mission Talent | South Africa

PRIVACY AND COOKIES POLICY*

* updated 27 July 2018

PRINCIPLES

At Misson Talent (that is Mission Talent in Germany and its partner agency Mission Talent cc in South Africa, in further text "Mission Talent", or "we"), we place great importance on the security of your data and commit ourselves to protect the privacy and treat personal data of every person using our services as highly confidential.

You may visit our website without providing your personal data. During your website visit, we only save access data containing any personal details. The data is solely assessed to improve our website services and does not allow insight into your identity.

Personal data is only saved during your visit to our website if you voluntarily submit it to us, for example, by using our online contact form or by sending us an application through our application form.

COLLECTING AND USING PERSONAL DATA

As an executive search agency, we engage in active sourcing. By doing pro-active research, we identify potential candidates which might have an interest in the roles for which we are recruiting. Through networking, but also via organisational websites and portals such as Xing and LinkedIn, we find and obtain contact details of the potential candidates in order to contact them to see if they would be interested in our roles. If we have your contacts, this also means we might have been told about you, someone might even connect us to you or give us your contact details. We consider having a legitimate interest to process this data, but you may be assured that your name and other details will be secure in our systems and will not be shared with anyone outside Mission Talent. You can also ask us at any time to delete this data. If we feel you have an interest in hearing from us, we will contact you to enquire if you would be interested in speaking with us regarding a certain available position.

You also have the possibility to submit your data through our online contact form as well as to upload your résumé. Entry of this data is explicitly done on a voluntary basis.

In all our recruitment procedures (when we approach candidates or vice versa) the applications will go through the same process. All candidates submit their CV and motivation letter (Word documents) via Mission Talent’s online system. When doing this, they give written consent that we may store and review personal data for a specific period.

We use the application data we receive from potential candidates only to evaluate and process their application. This personal data shall be treated confidentially and shall be used solely for its intended purpose according to the respective valid data protection provisions and shall not be forwarded to a third party outside our organisation (Mission Talent Germany and Mission Talent cc in South Africa) without consent. If you are a potential candidate who have applied for a role, your data shall only be transmitted to our clients (the employing organisation) after an extensive screening call with you and having received your written consent.

Once Mission Talent has completed a recruitment process, your personal data will be deleted from our system unless we have obtained your written consent that your data may remain in our database. Thereafter, any transmission to third parties may only take place after another screening call and after having received your written consent.

Transmission of your data to another third party or for marketing purposes shall not take place under any circumstances.

For our marketing purposes, we only use data of potential clients that are publicly available, or data provided by our clients, based on legitimate interest ground.

TRANSMISSION OF DATA TO A THIRD COUNTRY

During a recruitment process it may be the case that we have to transmit your personal data to a third party country/organisation whose data protections laws are inferior to those in the European Union. In those instances, we will do our best to offer a substantively similar protection of personal data shared with us.

Mission Talent cc (our South African partner agency) implements the same level of data protection as Mission Talent Germany as is required by EU law and General Data Protection Regulation.

Certain data that we process, might be processed and stored outside the European Union, on locations determined by our processors.

DATA SECURITY

We put special emphasis to employ technical and organisational measures in order to safeguard our website and other systems against loss, destruction, access, changes or the distribution of your data by unauthorized persons, taking into account the risks appropriate to each dataset or data-processing activity.

However, please note that notwithstanding our best efforts, complete data security and protection against all risks are not possible.

DATA RETENTION

We will keep your Personal Data for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which they are processed. We have set out specific retention periods where possible. Where that has not been possible, we have set out the criteria we use to determine the retention period.

RIGHTS OF DATA SUBJECT

You always have the right to get information about the ways in which we process your data, to obtain a copy of the personal data being processed by us, as well as the right to request that it be corrected or erased (the right to be forgotten). Under certain circumstances, you may also object to processing, or ask that processing of your data is restricted, or that it be transmitted directly to another controller (data portability). You may always withdraw consent previously given to us.

In accordance with applicable laws, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority.

USE OF COOKIES

We use so-called cookies on different pages to make our website more user-friendly, attractive and secure, and to enable the use of specific functions, especially to remember language settings or to enhance security on forms. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on your computer. Most of the cookies used by us are deleted after the browser session has ended (session cookies). Some cookies may remain on your device and enable us to recognise your browser during your next visit (persistent cookies). You may adjust your browser settings in such a way that you will be informed about the issuing of cookies and, in each case, may decide on the acceptance or principal exclusion of cookies. Please note the functionality of our website may be limited through this.

WEB ANALYSIS THROUGH MATOMO

This website uses Matomo (previously Piwik) for a statistical analysis. For this, cookies transmit text files, user activity logs (including a log of your abbreviated IP address) to the server and store them for user analytics after anonymisation. The information about the website usage generated will not be passed on to third parties.

You can block the installation of cookies by changing a setting in your browser software; however, please be aware that, if you block cookies, you might not have full use of all functionalities of this website.

When you use this sharing button, the social network receives information that you have viewed the relevant page of our website. If you are logged into the social network, the visit may be ascribed to your account. If you recommend an article, the relevant information will be transmitted directly from your browser to the social network and stored there.

The Twitter sharing button is merely a link to the provider, Twitter. Accordingly, no data of any kind is transmitted when you view our website. Only if you click the button will Twitter find out the website you are coming from, as is the case with any link. Twitter alone is responsible for the further processing of this information.

When visiting this website, a direct connection will be generated between your browser and the LinkedIn server through the plug-in. In this way, LinkedIn receives information about the fact that you visited this website with your IP address. If you click on the LinkedIn “Share Button” while you are logged in to your LinkedIn account, you can link the contents of this web page to your LinkedIn profile. In this way, LinkedIn can allocate the visit to this website to your user account.

Please note that we as website operators receive no knowledge of the content of the data transferred or their use by LinkedIn. You can find details on data collection (its purpose, extent, further processing and use) as well as on your rights and the possibility to amend settings in LinkedIn’s privacy policy.

VIMEO

We use video streaming services of Vimeo LLC, Vimeo, LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York 10011 when embedding videos as local servers lack sufficient capacities. When embedding videos the server of the providers is activated.

To learn more about the purpose and extent of data collection, processing and the use of this data by Vimeo as well as your relevant rights and settings available for the protection of your privacy, please refer to the information under https://vimeo.com/privacy.

MYFONTS

On this website, we use MyFonts Counter, a web analysis service of MyFonts Inc., 500 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, MA 01801, USA.

Based on the license terms, page view tracking is performed in which the number of visits to the website is counted for statistical purposes and transmitted to MyFonts. MyFonts only collects anonymized data.

Further information about MyFonts Counter can be found in the MyFonts data privacy statement .

RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECT

If you have any questions about this Privacy and Cookies Policy, our data protection practices or the practices of this site, you can contact Janien du Plessis and Katja Schramm by sending us an email to dpo@missiontalent.com